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BEIRUT — Thousands of Iraqi troops backed by Iranian-trained Shiite Muslim militias pushed north Monday toward Tikrit, Iraq, marking a major offensive to wrest control of the strategic and heavily symbolic city from the militant group Islamic State.

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration opened an all-out effort Monday to sell its nuclear diplomacy with Iran, with the president and several top aides laying out the case for a negotiated deal as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepared to mount an unprecedented challenge to the policy in an address to Congress on Tuesday.

Ota Omoruyi, 53, who has been homeless for a year, places a cardboard sign at the site of Sunday’s officer-involved shooting, on Monday morning in Los Angeles. The shooting has turned a sudden, harsh spotlight on the misery that plays out each day on Los Angeles’ skid row — just east of the city’s downtown skyline where roughly 1,500 people sleep on the streets.

WASHINGTON — A White House Task Force charged with probing the deteriorated relationship between police and the communities they protect issued a report Monday calling for independent investigations into all police shootings and for abolishing all policing practices that rely on racial profiling.

The first execution of a female inmate in Georgia since World War II was delayed for several hours on Monday evening and then ultimately postponed due to an issue with the lethal injection drugs, authorities said.

WASHINGTON — With no political solution in sight, Congress faces another deadline to fund the Department of Homeland Security by midnight Friday — a do-over of last week’s bitter battle as Republicans try to stop President Barack Obama’s immigration plans.

WASHINGTON — American workers already struggling with stagnant wages are being saddled with higher medical bills even as employers reap the benefits of a sustained slowdown in the growth of health care costs, a new report indicates.

WASHINGTON—Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell unveiled a possible road map Tuesday to prevent a shutdown of the Homeland Security Department, asking Democrats to advance a House funding measure and promising the Senate will strip out controversial provisions that block President Barack Obama’s new immigration actions.

WASHINGTON — When Republican leaders seized control of the Senate, they quickly targeted must-pass appropriations bills — not shutdown showdowns — as their best tool for reining in the Obama White House.

WASHINGTON — Sandwiched between two defining conservative events — CPCAC and the Iowa Ag Summit — is a less publicized but crucial confab for Republican presidential hopefuls seeking support from well-heeled donors.

OKLAHOMA CITY — A bill by a Bartlesville lawmaker that would end some of the existing end-of-instruction exams for high school seniors and align graduation exams to the ACT has passed the Oklahoma Senate Education Committee.

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is on the cusp of major decisions on Ukraine, the Islamic State and Iran, Secretary of State John Kerry told lawmakers Tuesday, though he declined to specify the direction in which those decisions are heading.

RAMALLAH, West Bank — After eight years of joint security operations and intelligence sharing with Israel that have kept tensions in the West Bank from erupting most of the time, Palestinian leaders are weighing an end to the arrangement.

A federal jury in New York has found the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority liable for a series of terrorist attacks that killed or wounded Americans in Israel during the early 2000s, officials announced Monday.